Learn about key principles like the separation of powers, checks and balances, and federalism, explore how the founders envisioned these important principles guarding against government abuses and ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Senator Ted Cruz discussed the concept of separation of powers using examples such as Federalist 10 and the Constitution. During the 2013 filibuster ...

The Nevada Supreme Court has a history of massaging the law to protect the state’s political elites — allowing lawmakers to ignore the two-thirds requirement for tax hikes, neutering term limits and ...

Dr. Yuval Levin of the American Enterprise Institute argues that the defense of liberty requires multiple answers to a fundamental political question: who rules? In Federalist No. 47, in the course of ...

The U.S. Constitution was crafted in 1787 both to establish a new central government and to limit it. Some of the limitations are direct, some are subtle and some are hidden. The chief instrument of ...